Using Podcasting in an Elementary Classroom

Patty CribleyAnd

Shelly Althauser

Our Backgrounds

• We teach in the Kenton City Schools.

• Patty teaches fourth grade at Espy Elementary.

• Shelly is a reading interventionist at Eastcrest Elementary.

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How do Children Benefit from Making a Podcast?

• It gives them a potential audience of millions for their work.

• It's great for developing literacy skills (writing scripts, setting up interviews etc).

• It allows children to develop and practice their speaking and listening skills.

• Podcasts can be interactive, and the audience can be invited to send their comments, giving valuable feedback to the children about their work.

What is a Podcast?

• “Podcasting" is a method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio files.

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How Can I Create a Podcast?

• 8 easy steps.• See the attached

help-sheet in your packet

• We do not currently publish our podcasts on the Internet with an RSS feed

Step #1

• Start up GarageBand and click on New Podcast Episode.

Step #2

• The media library may be open, close it by clicking on the media button.

Step #3

• You will record your audio into the Male or Female Voice track. Click on it to highlight it.

Step #4

• Click on the Rewind button and then Record. You can now start speaking and GarageBand will record your voice. To stop recording, click the Play button.

Rewind Record Play

Step #5

• Add intro and conclusion music.

• Click on the Eye button to see the different loops you can add to your song.

• Click Jingles and you can see the different jingles sorted by genres.

• Select the jingle that you want and drag it to the Jingles track.

Step #6

• Once you let up on the mouse button, the loop will be placed in the timeline.

• You can now drag your recorded podcast (the purple) so that it will start playing at the end of your jingle.

Step #7

• To add notes for your listeners, click on Information.

• On the right side of the screen the information window for the podcast will open. At the bottom of the screen you will see an area for description.

• In this area, you can describe your podcast.

Step #8

• Once your podcast is finished, you’ll need export it out of Garageband. Go to Share->Export Podcast to Disk.

• We have the students drag the podcast to our Shared folder.

Peer Teaching

• Peer teaching/coaching with multi-age students

• In our classes, older students record themselves reading a book. Later a younger student can follow along as the book is read to them.

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Online Book Reviews

• After reading a book, a student records a review or critique of the book.

• This enables other students to listen to their classmates’ opinions of certain books before they read them.

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Informational Reporting

• After learning about a topic, students can create a recording of their learning to share with others in a radio broadcast format.

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Reading and Comprehension Strategies

• Students can record themselves performing retellings and summaries of a book they have read.

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Current Events

• Students can report their opinion on a current event and respond to other students’ opinions

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Weekly Radio Show

• Each show has its own host, theme, and unique segments which can include things like “Bad Joke, Good Joke,” “Holiday Spotlight,” “Poetry Corner” and much more.

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Create a How-To-Report

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Other Ideas

• School news - a great way of telling children and parents what is going on at your school.

• Children's work - children love sharing their work. Ask them to record their own stories, or write reports about an activity they've tried at school

• Interviews - with members of staff, children, members of the community, and visitors to school.

Helpful Tips for Podcasting

• Have students listen to other podcast before beginning their own.

• Have students create rough scripts for use during the Podcast.

More Information

• To find more education podcasts, try Ipodcast (http://www.ipodcast.org.uk/) and the Education Podcast Network (http://epnweb.org/). For more general podcasts, take a look at Podcast Alley (http://www.podcastalley.com/) or Podfeed.net

PC Users

• Other software available: http://

audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.clickcaster.com/

Audacity is a free, easy to use, software-based audio recorder and editor.

Questions?

• If you have any questions, please email us at:

• cribleyp@kentoncityschools.org• althausers@kentoncityschools.org

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